UNCSA
MUSIC FACULTY MEMBER SHEILA BROWNE TO PERFORM VIOLA RECITAL ON JAN. 18

WINSTON-SALEM –
University of North Carolina School of
the Arts (UNCSA) School of Music faculty
member Sheila Browne, violin, and guest
pianist Julie Nishimura will perform
Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet and
other works at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan.
18, in Watson Chamber Music Hall on the
campus at 1533 South Main St.

In addition to Romeo and Juliet,
the program includes another work by
Prokofiev, his cello sonata, as well as
Vaughan Williams’ Romance and
Dvorak’s Sonatina.

Tickets are $12 for adults and $10 for
students and seniors. For reservations,
call the UNCSA Box Office at
336-721-1945 or visit
www.uncsa.edu/performances.

A dynamic and versatile artist with
American and Irish citizenship, violist
Sheila Browne has concertized in many of
the world's major halls as soloist,
chamber musician, and as principal of
several orchestras, including the
Juilliard, Mainz, Freiburg,
German-French, and Madrid's Queen Sofia
chamber orchestras; the Kiev
Philharmonic; and the New World
Symphony. She has performed extensively
at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall,
Kennedy Center, Schauspielhaus Berlin,
Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, London’s
Royal Festival Hall, Buenos Aires’
Teatro Colon as well as the major halls
of Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago,
Houston, St. Louis, Paris, Mexico,
Australia, China, and Hong Kong. Also an
active recitalist, she has given
concerts and outreach performances
across North America, Europe and
Australia.

A passionate and dedicated teacher,
Browne was Karen Tuttle's teaching
assistant at The Juilliard School with a
Naumburg scholarship for four years, and
was awarded a German Academic Exchange
Grant (DAAD) for studies with soloist
Kim Kashkashian at the Freiburger
Hochschule. She also was Karen
Ritscher's teaching assistant at Rice
University's Shepherd School while in
Paul Katz’s quartet residency program.
She has taught at the universities of
Missouri and Tennessee before joining
the faculty of the University of the
North Carolina School of the Arts, and
has also recently joined the faculty of
New York University. Browne teaches at
summer festivals such as California
Summer Music, Green Mountain Chamber
Music Festival, and at the Euro Music
Festival in Leipzig, Germany. Her most
recent invitations to give master
classes and/or recitals have been at
Oberlin, Eastman, Queens and McGill
universities. She serves on the
executive board of the American Viola
Society.

Pianist Julie Nishimura celebrates 21
years as faculty accompanist for the
Department of Music at the University of
Delaware, having performed more than 350
collaborative recitals and 40 opera and
scene-study performances with the Opera
Workshop and Opera Theatre. A much
sought-after collaborative artist,
Nishimura has performed in the chamber
music series of Carnegie Hall’s Weill
Recital Hall, the Philadelphia Orchestra
and the Delaware Symphony Orchestra, and
she has been a guest artist at more than
30 college campuses.

The University of North Carolina School
of the Arts is the first
state-supported, residential school of
its kind in the nation. Established as
the North Carolina School of the Arts by
the N.C. General Assembly in 1963, UNCSA
opened in Winston-Salem (“The City of
Arts and Innovation”) in 1965 and became
part of the University of North Carolina
system in 1972. More than 1,100 students
from high school through graduate school
train for careers in the arts in five
professional schools: Dance, Design and
Production (including a Visual Arts
Program), Drama, Filmmaking, and Music.
UNCSA is the state’s only public arts
conservatory, dedicated entirely to the
professional training of talented
students in the performing, visual and
moving image arts. For more information,
visit
www.uncsa.edu.